May 2, 2022 - EyeClarity Podcast
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Tue, 4/12 2:30PM • 19:45
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
eye, left, exercise, brain, patch, dialoguing, work, restore, blur, lazy, feel, develop, withdrawn, prescription, labeling, cover, hyper vigilance, release, exhale, peripheral vision
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We’re gonna play a little game. And the game is, I want you to cover your left eye with your left hand. And I want you to look above the screen. I just want you to look out in the room. Just look around, and we’re going to talk to the right, I am going to ask your right eye some questions. So you don’t need to analyze just kind of, you know, give me the first answer that pops into your head. Right i How old do you feel right now? I really don’t know. Okay, all right. You feel old? You feel young? Do you feel ageless? Do you feel like that’s a stupid question. I have no idea. I never thought
00:45
I honestly Yeah. Like I don’t I don’t think about that. But I mean, right now looking around the room. Maybe? I don’t know. I guess it’s okay. I feel I’m like 30s Maybe
00:56
30s Okay, great. Second question. Right. I write I do you know that you’re married to the left? I?
01:05
Yes, definitely. Okay, and
01:07
how’s the marriage is about is a deep
01:10
work, but it’s not balanced. I do all the work.
01:14
Exactly. Right. You do all the work. So right. i What do you need that you’re not getting? Probably some rest. Honey, yeah. All right. So now you’re going to slowly take your hands away from your left eye. And I want you to give me some impressions. When you reintroduce the left eye like things look brighter, clearer. Whatever, when you reintroduce brighter. Okay, anything else?
01:51
I don’t know if they’re clear. Okay. It’s
01:54
brighter. That’s one, maybe more peripheral vision. You know, who knows? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Now I want you to cover the right eye. Okay, okay. What’s your first impression when you cover the right eye? What’s what’s the first thing that shows up in your awareness?
02:15
very fuzzy, like,
02:17
very fuzzy. Okay, interesting. All right, so
02:19
I can see things but not
02:23
blurrier than the right eye. Okay. Left Eye? How old do you feel?
02:28
80 years old?
02:31
Yeah, wow, you’re old. Okay. And left eye? How’s the marriage to the right eye?
02:37
The right eye is great. I can’t do anything without it.
02:40
So is it balanced? Or does the right I do all the work?
02:43
does all the work.
02:47
Okay, and so left i What is your belief system about blurry vision? Like, what what is what is this blur mean to you?
03:03
Don’t know,
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well is it is it means something is wrong? Something is bad? Or do you could you get hurt? Are you just you know, are you just withdrawn? You know what, what, what is? What is your? What is your meaning of blur of blur? Does it make you happy? Is it make you sad?
03:27
No, of course it makes me sad. I just feel that the eyes always been really incapable I kind of weak and not able to do
03:35
so left eye what happened to you that caused this was Did this happen in utero? Did it happen at birth? Why have you withdrawn from the world? You know, they’ve labeled you lazy. So what happened left? I
03:51
don’t know. I was born this way.
03:54
You were just born this way? No, no idea why? And so you’re kind of just living this out. Okay. All right. So you can take your hand away reintroduce the right eye and give me an impression when you reintroduce the right eye?
04:12
Yeah, everything’s clear. I can see again, you can see again,
04:15
okay. All right. So I want you to get this. This is a really important. I want you to start working with an eyepatch on a daily basis. And I want you to start dialoguing and talking to each of your eyes. And when you whenever you wear a patch, it disrupts your habitual relationship kind of wakes it up. And it’s a very different kind of exercise than what the traditional doctor says which he would say well have just patch the good eye, you know, labeling at the right eye for eight hours a day and force the left eye to work. No, that is probably the most traumatizing thing that one can do. In this particular technique, you’re only patching for maybe a minute or two. And you want to bring an internal connection to yourself while you’re patching. And that’s why we asked the questions and dialoguing, because it disrupts the same pattern that you’ve been living under, since you were born. Yeah. And there’s also a labeling that happens.
Lazy, I’m lazy, lazy eye. And I would see if you could reframe it to say, Well, my left eye sees in a different perspective, than the right eye, you know, when when the left eye is more blurry, it can actually be more intuitive. It can be more receptive, like blurred does not have to be a bad thing. So I want you to see if you can stop saying left eye lazy. Because you’re, you’re living out that diagnosis that somebody put on you. And so it’s going to keep your eye ping, you know, withdrawn. So when you wear the patch, you’re going to do it equally, because it’s not just the left eye. And it’s not just the right eye, they both have a relationship. And the most important part of the patching is when you take it off, and you notice that things look better. Wow, brighter, clearer. So it’s kind of accessing a type of neuroplasticity in your brain, when you patch and then take the patch away, see the eyes originate from the brain, every tissue of eyeball is brain.
And it starts developing like two weeks, three weeks after conception. So when you’re in utero, and a lot of times when a child develops lazy eye, it could have been some stress in utero could have been just a gestation only, maybe you were, you know, you were leaning on the left side of your face, or maybe at birth, there was some, you know, breach or, you know, something happened there with the left side. Or, you know, maybe in development, there’s a certain motor development that children need to go through to develop their eye coordination. And whatever it is, we don’t know, I mean, you know, if we did a regression, you know, maybe we could find out, but it’s not even important. It’s just to start stimulating each eye separately, and then bringing them together,
08:09
to bring them back together after you’ve separated them. And you’ve kind of internally talked about it, it changes how the two eyes are now relating to each other. And that’s what you want to do you want to create something new, new pathways. Right now, your left eye and right eye are living out a certain narrative. And the glasses just cover that over. And you need to start exploring, what’s the collaboration, like? And it may be? We don’t know, you know, when you go through this, there could be some dreams that come out, there could be some emotions that come out. It’s going to be provocative on a psycho emotional level, around the left eye. And the right eye, like we know right now, the right my right eye might be feeling a little resentful because it’s doing most of the work. That could be one of the reasons why your eyes are are deteriorating, because the left eye is not engaging with the right eye on top of this crazy prescription that this doc,
09:17
yeah, totally. And I’ve been very protective. Like when you mentioned the idea of fear. I’ve always been afraid of an injury to my right. Because I keep I keep thinking that if something and I would even say this. I mean, it’s just crazy. I would even say something like if something happens to my right eye, I could become legally blind.
09:37
Right, right. Yeah. So your mind is running that through that energy through your right eye? Yes, it’s stressing the right eye. It’s like a hyper vigilance. Yes. And that needs to stop. Now there’s a technique called NF T or not NF T EFT Emotional Freedom Technique. Look it up on line and it’s a way you can release your fear by doing some tapping, tapping into the fear, I would do what you can to release the fear, okay? That you stop unconsciously pressuring the right eye to have to, you know, oh my god, you know, because that hyper vigilance is is also creating a drain,
10:24
of course. And you’re right, everything is in the brain, we know that the brain is developing and evolving and coordinating. I mean, the old ideas about the brain have completely been overturned. Science. So
10:36
I just read a study University of Rochester said 50% of vision is brain. Well, I think it’s more than that, but that they did a research
10:44
more, I think it is the Oregon itself. I mean, sometimes it’s not if you have diabetes, and you develop some issues with the eye in the structure of the eye and the vessels, the blood vessels. But in my case, if everything structurally is intact, at a physiological level, then it’s all brain. It’s 100% brain, right? Because the organ itself, like the part itself hasn’t been changed or altered by any means. So it’s all brain. So I need to restore it. Yeah, yeah, that’s awesome.
11:11
Yeah. So now there are two more exercises in this in this session. The second exercise is I’m going to send you a link to a focusing exercise that I recommend using both eyes together, it’s called the Yin Yang, peripheral vision exercise, and I’ll send you a video on how to do it. And I’ll send you the chart which you can print out, it’s an exercise that you’re going to do, and you’re gonna have to focus your eyes in a certain way. And when you focus them correctly, you’re going to see three images on the sheet of paper. And when you get three images, that means that both of your eyes are engaging at the same time. So you’re practicing visual coordination simultaneously.
So the both eyes are working together, and you spend about a minute on it. And there’s four pairs of symbols. And you’re going to hold the sheet up to your nose, you’re going to look through it, you’re going to push it out to about 12 inches, and you got three images now that you’re focused on your left eye sees the left, right eye sees the right and both eyes see the middle. So now you’re re educating your two eyes to work together. And so you’re getting the eye dialogue, which I’ll send you that one also. So we just did. And then this is the focusing exercise, would you do like a minute or two minutes, I would do it like three times a day, you know, just to introduce a new pattern to your eye brain connection.
And then the third exercise is a relaxation exercise. Help the headaches give you more clarity. So I want to do it with you right now. This is what I want. If you would play with me, I want you to rub your hands together one time for about 10 seconds. And then I want you to take the palms and I want you to cover your eyes and your eyes are closed. I want you to take a normal breath in through the nose, just a normal breath and keep your mouth closed. And on the exhale. I want you to make a low but fairly robust humming sound and keep your mouth closed. So I can hear the hum. So go ahead and do one for me.
13:37
On the exhale I hear the hum I’m not hearing the hum there we go okay, I want you to do six of those. Just like that. Be robust with it on the exhale. So you can feel the vibration six of them.
15:00
Okay Okay, keep your eyes closed. And I want you to remove your hands. Keep your eyes closed. And what are you feeling? A lot of lights a lot of light. Okay, feel the energy moving. Feel the energy? Yeah.
15:32
And now you can open your eyes and look around so what you just did there? How does other things look? What do you feel? What do you see?
15:50
It feels pretty good. Very good. Color is the clarity.
15:59
Yep. Okay, so this is called the palm hum. And this is a relaxation exercise that will release any tension in your eye muscles. And I’d like you to do this one three times a day also, okay. And if you start feeling like a headache coming on, instead of doing six of them, do 12 of them. And it will release the muscle tension. So any questions?
16:50
If I do the exercises like how quickly am I expected to see some changes, or so what am I looking for?
16:59
Well, I think number one, you’re looking for more peace and calming. And a loving relationship to your eyes. less worry, less stress, less frustration. So it’s going to show up there on an emotional level first. Once you release and let go of your current angst around it. And then you go get these this new prescription, I think it can be pretty immediate, that you’re going to start to see more clearly and your eyesight is going to start to restore itself. And then the long term would be to continue to do these practices. And you’ll see the reliance on your glasses, be less. And you’ll be able to go into a place and you’ll be able to read without meeting the magnifiers. Now, I’m going to circle back around and I’d like you to work with this for about six weeks. And then I’d like to do another session with you where I could teach you exercises to get rid of your reading glasses. Okay, you won’t be able to do that in this round. Right now we’re just trying to stop the bleeding.
18:27
Right? It’s right restore, restore. It’s
18:31
how to change the track that you’re on. But you’ll have days where you’re, you’re seeing really well. And I think healing this label of lazy I mean, the left, I could start seeing more clearly, that’d be another added benefit. It’s all going to be based on your healing ability. I mean, you are now given a lot of positive things to great change, instead of being in the same rut. And I would say that what that doctor said to you about between whatever the age is, that’s a myth. No, that’s not true. In my practice, people are getting better. I’m reducing their prescription every year they come to see me
19:23
Yes, I want to go back to the days when I wear it on bad days on strenuous periods of time where I have to do like you know 1215 hours a day of reading and straining and then I take it off and I’m fine again. Right, exactly.
19:38
Right, that would be another benefit but I would add do these exercises throughout the day.
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